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Sometimes 10 days would go by without a single message.
my husband started reading Q posts,
♪ And the White Knight is talking backwards ♪
who shares cryptic messages through an online forum
Furber: Being a baker is a terrible job.
Filmmaker: This is how followers see Q,
that Q was no longer real.
Yo, Q don't reach out to anybody.
but that doesn't mean that QAnon itself is wrong or fake."
That people, you know, after we got
Seriously. "Christians" is in their top ten boards.
Filmmaker: Tell me a little bit about the board change that happened.
would then select the best research
Filmmaker: A story of how a website changed the world.
Filmmaker: From the John Kerry Swift Boat campaign of 2004,
looking at about two and a half million views a month.
Things we think we know about this guy,
were on the brink of being cured.
in order to understand the underlying motives,
I was making fun of people
and live-streamed himself, sort of like,
We don't believe Q is just one specific person.
into proof Q exists.
Is there 8-- Isn't there--
or as the users call them-- and keep everybody engaged.
and everything resonated with me,
Sommer: Q moves from 4chan to 8chan
There was a lot of research.
And so, someone who's going through it,
I got five emails this morning.
when a man from North Carolina comes up and fires some shots.
Filmmaker: Like most anons,
So as soon as a Q post is up,
"Some creepy stuff in here, guys.
but they're like, "Wow. This guy's getting a lot of pizza."
but it's arguable that Q would have never broken into the mainstream
from this individual who is obviously
because Corsi was threatening his revenue stream.
I have the Q, if you want to see it.
"This is not a game," "Godfather III,"
Sommer: Well, when you, when you start looking into it,
'Cause, you know, God's first,
So I offered to pick Joy up at the airport and bring her over.
(crowd yelling)
and it's the website that Q calls home.
and so they won't actually come out
I mean, I certainly never had any interaction with Codemonkey.
Yeah, that's my website.
So, the reach is there.
uh, that, uh, Trump has used for a long time.
it was where their whole, like, persona is just, like,
And she was like, "Wow, so he has moved."
interpreted by followers,
QAnon picked your website.
that it only takes a five-minute YouTube video
Well, I think Q is President Trump.
I started researching
-Filmmaker: To you name it. -Corsi: There's no evidence
and their global partners
I'm gonna just be honest, here.
That password would get cryptographically scrambled,
He thought it was still the same Q continuing.
everybody to come together.
and I immediately started following on 4chan.
that allowed people to just speak their mind
That's all I felt.
8chan is one of many imageboard websites.
They move to a board that is then, uh, controlled
a mega-conspiracy theory
and want to see me make more.
Watkins: Correct. Because every other website banned him.
Q left, and went to this board that I had created.
In 2018, I reached out to him over Twitter.
sometimes they'll even think it's me.
We went in front of the VIP line.
I don't even know what I was saying now.
People, I think there's just gonna be this big bust
a largely forgotten '90s flick
To connect whatever dots they may find,
and they've been working together all along.